On a Conversation between Socrates and Meno in the Dialogue Meno

This short text discusses Part II of Plato’s dialogue Meno, in which Socrates asks the boy to construct a square twice the area of a given square. Socrates presupposes that the boy already knows what a square looks like (“what it is” in everyday language), knows (accepts) that the four sides of the...

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Main Author: 10.33112/nm.15.1.32
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The University of Akureyri 2020-03-01
Series:Nordicum-Mediterraneum
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Online Access:https://nome.unak.is/wordpress/volume-15-no-1-2020/other-contribution-volume-15-no-1-2020/on-a-conversation-between-socrates-and-meno-in-the-dialogue-meno/